Evaluating a Respectful Maternity Care Program in Kenya

HealthRight's Child Survival Program in Kenya works to reduce disrespect and abuse during childbirth in nine partner health facilities by offering training and mentoring on Respectful Maternity Care and by facilitating the development of response mechanisms. Baseline and midterm survey results show the prevalence of the issue, which negatively impacts women's facilities use. Stay tuned for a final report in October 2016!

State of the Social Service Workforce 2015 Report

This first annual report published on June 10, 2015, sheds light on the social service workforce, an important group of people who help to ensure that effective prevention and support services reach those who need it most. The report features data and trends, showcases innovative and effective workforce strengthening initiatives, and highlights the need for more data and focus in this area.

A Resource Guide for Enhancing Potential for Sustainable Impact

This Guide offers a useful resource that can help implementing organizations, local partners, donors, and other stakeholders better understand how a 'sustainability lens' can be applied practically throughout the life cycle of a project through effective management, capacity strengthening, and implementation of practical transition strategies.

Facilitator's Kit: Community Preparedness for Reproductive Health and Gender

This provisional Facilitator's Kit provides a complete framework for a 3-day training on Community Preparedness for Reproductive Health and Gender. The goal is to build community capacity to prepare and respond to risks and inequities faced by women and girls during emergencies.  

Desk Review of Programs Integrating Family Planning with Food Security and Nutrition

FANTA conducted an extensive desk review to take stock of how programs are integrating family planning with food security and nutrition. Findings from 102 health and multisectoral programs, including lessons learned, promising practices for programming, and three case studies are available in our report.

Health Workforce Productivity Analysis and Improvement Toolkit

This Guide offers a useful resource that can help implementing organizations, local partners, donors, and other stakeholders better understand how a 'sustainability lens' can be applied practically throughout the life cycle of a project through effective management, capacity strengthening, and implementation of practical transition strategies.

Engaging Men to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health

Because of their roles as decision makers and heads of household, men play an important role in improving maternal and child health care in their communities. This facilitator's guide focuses on training male volunteers to become "counselors" who encourage fathers to change practices or adopt new behaviors that will help improve the health of their wives and children.  

Health Actions for Women

This resource shares proven strategies and activities to help women and men facilitate community discussions and action around such topics as family planning, sexuality, HIV, and gender-based violence - even in challenging settings where education and organizing for women's and girls' health may be difficult or dangerous. 

Scaling Up Live-Saving Commodities for Women, Children, and Newborns

This toolkit provides information about the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities, 13 priority commodities, and examples of how its recommendations to improve access and availability are being applied globally and within countries. It also provides advocacy resources to raise awareness and engage stakeholders in addressing commodity-related gaps in policy.

State of the World's Mothers: The Urban Disadvantage

The 16th annual State of the World's Mothers report delves into a comparison of the health disparities between wealthy and poor women and children living in cities around the world. In 2015 more than half of the world's population lives in cities. Unfortunately, a growing proportion of child deaths are occurring within these cities in urban slums. 

mHealth as a Tool for Integrated Systems Strengthening in Sexual and Reproductive Health Programming

This technical brief analyzes Pathfinder's use of mHealth for integrated systems strengthening in sexual and reproductive health programs in Mozambique, Tanzania, Nigeria, and Haiti.  It includes several recommendations for using mHealth as a tool to support solutions to complex community and health system interventions.

Raising the Score

This collaborative storytelling project documents the impact of CARE's Community Score Card (CSC)? in improving maternal health service in Malawi. The films were produced by the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication and University of Malawi journalism students in collaboration with CARE.